Scott Bakula

Born Oct. 9, 1954 and raised the son of a lawyer in St. Louis, MO, Bakula caught the performing bug as a small child and later began playing piano and singing in a band. In high school, he split his time between athletics and starring turns in musical productions. He spent three years at the University of Kansas but quit to join a touring musical, and in 1976 moved to New York to begin his stage career in earnest. Bakula spent nearly a decade paying his dues in touring and off-Broadway musicals, making his Broadway debut in 1983 as Joe DiMaggio in the short-lived, critically derided stage musical, "Marilyn: An American Fable." He earned a much more positive reception two years later when he ... Continue Bio >>